Colloquia & Events
From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.
Spring 2010 Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu
February 5 |
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Deborah Roberts
Haverford College
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Sheila Murnaghan
University of Pennsylvania
“Depicting Monstrosity: Visual Narrative in Illustrated Myth Books for Children”
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Fall 2009 Schedule
September 11 |
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 News from Abroad: Student Reports
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*September 17 |
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 Linda Hutcheon
University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University ofToronto
“Critical Theory/Theories--In Many Tongues”
*Please Note: Lecture will be on THURSDAY, September 17 at 4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21. There will be a reception following lecture in the Quita Woodward Room.
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September 25 |
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 Aldo Setaioli, University of Perugia, Italy
“Encolpius and Priapus: The Poems at Petr. Sat. 133.3 & 139.2 and Priapus’ Role in the Satyrica”
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October 30 |
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 Philip Sapirstein, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, Mediterranean Section
"East Meets West at the Archaic Temple of Hera At Mon Repos, Corfu"
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November 6 |
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 Lee Pearcy, Episcopal Academy & Bryn Mawr College
“Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus' De Morte and Asclepiades of Bithynia”
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November 13 |
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 Carla Antonaccio, Duke University
“The Argive Heraion, Revisited”
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November 20 |
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 Annetta Alexandridis, Cornell University
“Men, Metamorphosis, and the Transforming Power of Wine”
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December 4 |
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 The Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium
December 4-5, 2009
“The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation”
Featured Respondent:
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Center for Visual Culture and the Departments of Classical and near Eastern Archaeology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, and History of Art
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